If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it. And this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
–Marcus Aurelius
I tell you: one must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
— From Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
–Aldous Huxley
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
— Albert Einstein
You can’t have an easy life and a great character.
— Me, inspired by Jimmy Carr
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
—Carl Jung
Faith builds, but cynacism destroys.
— Lyndon Johnson
No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of this temper, and the loss of self-control.
— Abraham Lincoln
This is not a dress rehearsal. This is your life.
— Bill Murray
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.